Some of you will have noticed the site has been slow over the last few days, at first Tony suspected it was maintenance work being carried out on the server, after Tony spoke to them in some detail today, it appears the problem is with the forum software and the database, which is hogging all our server resources.
Tony has done extensive research and looked at forums with members running into thousands and having hundreds of postings daily and they are using XenForo forum software, Tony has been busy testing this software and it works without any of the problems we are currently experiencing, so Tony has set up a test site at http://cornishman.net/community/ which current members can log in to and have a look (Please do not post in this test forum)
Tony has tailored the site to look very similar to what we are used to, he has added extra themes and if any of you spot any major issues then let us know by replying in this thread, it is planned to switch at the end of January 2016 or sooner if the Vbullitin software becomes a bigger problem
None of us like change but what I have seen of Tony's efforts he has done a grand job of keeping everything very similar to what we are all used to, on top of that for those of you that used Facebook you will be able to log in using your Facebook account.
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Terry
Tony has done extensive research and looked at forums with members running into thousands and having hundreds of postings daily and they are using XenForo forum software, Tony has been busy testing this software and it works without any of the problems we are currently experiencing, so Tony has set up a test site at http://cornishman.net/community/ which current members can log in to and have a look (Please do not post in this test forum)
Tony has tailored the site to look very similar to what we are used to, he has added extra themes and if any of you spot any major issues then let us know by replying in this thread, it is planned to switch at the end of January 2016 or sooner if the Vbullitin software becomes a bigger problem
None of us like change but what I have seen of Tony's efforts he has done a grand job of keeping everything very similar to what we are all used to, on top of that for those of you that used Facebook you will be able to log in using your Facebook account.
Comments Please
Terry